ANCHOVIES FRIED IN BATTER

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
Source
Modern cookery for private families
Time
Cook: 5 min Total: 5 min
Yield
12.0 anchovies
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (3)
Instructions (7)
  1. Scrape very clean a dozen or more of fine anchovies, and soak them in plenty of spring water from two to six hours.
  2. Wipe them dry, open them, and take out the backbones, without dividing the fish.
  3. Season the insides highly with cayenne.
  4. Close the anchovies.
  5. Dip them into the French batter of Chapter V., or into a light English batter.
  6. Fry them a pale amber-colour.
  7. They will be quite sufficiently done in from four to five minutes.
Original Text
ANCHOVIES FRIED IN BATTER. Scrape very clean a dozen or more of fine anchovies, and soak them in plenty of spring water from two to six hours: then wipe them dry, open them, and take out the backbones, without dividing the fish. Season the insides highly with cayenne, close the anchovies, dip them into the French batter of Chapter V., or into a light English batter, and fry them a pale amber-colour: in from four to five minutes they will be quite sufficiently done. 85 CHAPTER III. Dishes of Shell-Fish
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